Chastened by a disastrous strike in 1984, he built on an earlier coalition that had been forged by the union to produce dramatic benefits for home health-care workers.

The delegates were motivated to form a larger federation because of the recent disastrous strike in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

The American Miners' Association began to fail due to disastrous strikes and internal dissensions during the period 1867-1868, and ceased to exist by 1869.

For years unions were so discouraged by several disastrous strikes, most notably the Caterpillar and the air controllers' strikes, that they had generally shunned large-scale walkouts.

But he was struck by the plight of the controllers, many of whom he feels were duped into a disastrous strike.

Overall attendance at games had increased nearly every season in recent years, after plummeting by 20 percent in the aftermath of a disastrous 234-day strike in 1994-95.

In a 1998 interview with ESPN, he abandoned that stance in commenting on the disastrous 50-day strike in 1981.

This resulted in a disastrous strike in early 1989, and the company's network was paralysed for weeks on end.

Israeli military officers said their strikes had been scaled down in the aftermath of Thursday's disastrous strike against a United Nations base packed with refugees.

In Lucifer's Hammer, the world is thrown into total chaos by the disastrous strike of a comet.